Nonsense Ppaper on Nuclear Physics Written by iOS Autocomplete Accepted for Conference

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A
senseless and Illogical academic paper on nuclear physics by only iOS
autocomplete has been accepted for a scientific conference without any doubt.
An associate professor, Christoph Bartneck, at the Human Interface Technology
laboratory located at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, got an email
asking him to submit a research paper to the International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics in the US in November.

“Since
I have practically no knowledge of nuclear physics I resorted to iOS
autocomplete function to help me writing the paper. I started a sentence with
‘atomic’ or ‘nuclear’ and then randomly hit the autocomplete suggestions. The
text really does not make any sense.”

The atoms of a better universe will have the
right for the same as you are the way we shall have to be a great place for a
great time to enjoy the day you are a wonderful person to your great time to
take the fun and take a great time and enjoy the great day you will be a
wonderful time for your parents and kids,” is a sample sentence from the
abstract.

It
concludes: “Power is not a great place for a good time.”

Bartneck
showed the paper – titled, again only by autocorrect, “Atomic Energy will have
been made available to a single source” – with the first graphic on the
Wikipedia entry for nuclear physics.

He
submitted it under a fake identity: associate professor Iris Pear of the US,
whose experience in atomic and nuclear physics was outlined in a biography
using contradictory gender pronouns. The nonsensical paper was accepted only
three hours later, in an email asking Bartneck to confirm his slot for the
“oral presentation” at the international conference.

“I
know that iOS is a pretty good software, but reaching tenure has never been
this close,” Bartneck commented in the blog post.

He
did not have to pay money to submit the paper, but the acceptance letter
referred him to register for the conference at a cost of US$1099 (also able to
be paid in euros or pounds) as an academic speaker.

“I
did not complete this step since my university would certainly object to me
wasting money this way,” Bartneck told Guardian Australia. “... My impression
is that this is not a particularly good conference.”

The
International Conference on Atomic and Nuclear Physics will be held on 17-18
November in Atlanta, Georgia, and is organised by ConferenceSeries: “an
amalgamation of Open Access Publications and worldwide international science
conferences and events”, established in 2007.

An
organizer has been contacted by Guardian Australia for comment. Bartneck said
that given the quality of the review process and the steep registration fee, he
was “reasonably certain that this is a money-making conference with little to
no commitment to science.

“I
did not yet reply to their email, but I am tempted to ask them about the
reviewers’ comments. That might be a funny one.”

The
conference’s call for abstracts makes only a little more sense than Bartneck’s
paper.

“Nuclear
and sub-atomic material science it the investigation of the properties, flow
and collaborations of the essential (however not major) building pieces of
matter.”

A
bogus research paper reading only “Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List”
repeated over and over again was accepted by the International Journal of
Advanced Computer Technology, an open-access academic journal, in November
2014.